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so how fast is the OCZ Revo Drive honestly there's a lot of different benchmarks you can run to test an SSD but I'm going to talk more in terms of in general theory and I'm just going to show you a quick crystal disk mark as well as one benchmark that may not be interesting to you but I personally find it interesting so first of all we've got our little crystal disk mark gruhn so you can see that these specs are pretty much ridiculous you're looking at reeds of over 600 megabytes per second and this is for what is in for all intents and purposes for SSDs strapped together so come have a look at the card itself so you've got 16 tips person force controller here and then you've got a PCI Express 2 PCI bridge you've got a PCI RAID controller here so we're running all 4 drives in raid 0 remember you can configure them in whatever RAID config that you want that's totally up to you and so yeah I've left them in raid 0 it comes pre done in raid 0 though so here I'm going to actually shut down the computer really quick so we're installing up the one of two actually windows updates install really fast that's one of the things I really like about the Revo drive because I had to set up a new Windows setup in order to show you guys a fresh install actually here that stay focused on this though because I'm going to show you guys the boot up time there I press the button now and yeah so it I really appreciate when things just turn it install really quickly so that's been really nice about the Revo drive now I want to talk while we're waiting for the system to boot up about some of the theoretical limitations of something like a Revo drive so first of all Revo drive does not support trim I get a lot of questions about this and trim is not supported in RAID period that means whether we're talking raid on a PCIe card whether we're talking about raid on multiple SATA drives that are plugged into a motherboard or a third party raid card whatever it is no trim period so what that means is that the Revo drive relies on its idle garbage collection in order to make sure that the SSD stays performing in an optimal state and look at that as soon as I boot it in I had it launching Word PowerPoint and Excel it didn't even hesitate so that is in addition to going back and checking out my original hard drive vs SSD episode on NCIX tech tips which you should go check out that is just the demonstration that I want to show you guys for how snappy an SSD makes everything you do in fact why don't we show you guys a couple other ones Windows Media Center takes forever to launch I think we can all agree about that boom done Windows Media Center can take like multiple steamboats to launch on a hard drive it can even take a steamboat or steamboat and a half to launch on an SSD but on something like the Revo drive it's just ridiculous so here you know what stay stay tuned with me here I'm going to go ahead and start adding a bunch of random stuff to the startup folder so let's put Windows Media Player in there let's put Internet Explorer in there let's just add like a whole bunch of like random stupid stuff to it so how about the see I don't have a whole lot installed on here right now I apologize for that guys I wish I had sort of more so why don't we just sort of grab some more random dumb stuff and throw it in in the startup folder here let me do this off camera then and I'll come back when I'm ready so for the sake of being able to reproduce this from home we've stuck with mostly applications that almost anyone should have installed on their computer so I'm going to go ahead and press ENTER and we are are we done already with that it I was expecting to have like some kind of a time period that you can actually measure but there's nothing it's just done by the time we hit the desk we don't even see the desktop it's just done so we launched the calculator Excel Internet Explorer paint PowerPoint sound recorder Windows Media Center Windows Media Player as well as Microsoft Word we launched it all and it's done just like that so that's how fast the Revo drive is would I recommend that you get one definitely so yeah that's pretty easy also it has these cool LEDs check it out so if I do anything on the on the hard drive it actually like it kind of reminds me of an airplane because it has like lights on each wing so you you can actually see the the activity LEDs for these two SSDs here and then you can see the activity LEDs for the two SSDs that are built into the bottom PCB over here so anytime you do anything whether yes so here I'm kind of like accessing things you can see they all kind of flash and it looks really cool in the dark when your systems well in the dark so thanks for checking out Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and don't forget to check out the OCZ Revo drive x2 in all of its wicked performance glory well crazy Russian thinks it looks more like a spaceship in an airplane but you know what they say about people who are crazy they think they see spaceships so hey man I like spaceships and lasers